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Instant Messengers Analysis and Comparison
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There's a million of these lists, all chosen critera's chosen carefully or outright false to fit their bias. Like why the hell is electron mentioned in a privacy comparison? XMPP is a protocol too, not a client, which makes comparison to Element make no sense, why would they not compare it to Matrix and ignore all of their other features? This list is complete shit.
electron is mentioned in the OS supported section as a platform. Not taken into account for the privacy part, as you can see it is neither red or green. Also, there's not a single mention of Element, because it's just one client, yes.
I encourage you to read our criteria, I think you'll find it quite reasonable.
You literally put Electron under the Matrix protocol. If you're going to judge it by its official client, you should do so with XMPP, whom doesn't even have an official client.
I just did a text search on the page and There's no mention of electron outside the Operating System support in the table, which is not taken into account for the rating.
And yes, I like that There's no official client for XMPP which helps it's independence from any entity or corporation, potential bad actors trying to push malicious features. But that's beyond my point.
I don't judge Element instead of Matrix. I just mention the OS support which is not rated and I make clear that there are other clients.
can you even read? It's under supported OSs, and it says that it also has other clients in the same box.